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Posted By: Chad

Unfortunately, a lot of people don't, and a lot of these people pay a lot of money for highly graded cards which has created an incentive for doctoring. You can understand how this comes back to collectors like me who really don't care about the numerical grade, no? I'll buy a grade card I want because I'm buying the card and not the holder, but how do I know what's in the holder anymore? And cards get broken out of holders, too. At this point I'd rather have a third party grader spend more of their time and expertise trying to ferret out if a card is authentic and unaltered than if it's a 5 or a 6.

--Chad